New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said it has agreed to merge with the Neue Galerie, cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder’s esteemed museum for German and Austrian modern art housed in an ornate beaux-arts building across Fifth Avenue. 🔗

Hollein and Ronald Lauder have been in conversation about joining the two museums for a year, and the Neue Galerie’s 25th anniversary—coming up this autumn—seemed like the perfect occasion.

Look of the week! PARIS!! Got a new @FentyOfficial pop up at @Galeries_Laf Champs-Elysées open now thru Oct 12th! Shop the latest 9-19 drop before it’s available online at on Sept. 26th!

🖼️ 24 HOURS OF ART 📊 September 19, 2026 🎨 Pictured: 24 Hour Highlights - 'Fidenza #717#' by @tylerxhobbs, acquired via @gondixyz - 'Where My Vans Go #119#' by @DrifterShoots, collected by @ivoDYOR - 'Light Years #054#' by @dmitricherniak - 'STEADY' - 'REMNANT #132#' - 'EXIT STRATEGY' (@punk6529 Memes) by @XCOPYART - 'Disaster Girl' by @esraeslen, acquired via @GalerieMet - 'the rise and fall' by @toadswiback x @Xer0x_XYZ x @luispon_c - 'LORE #26#' by @hahajohnx, collected by @durtis ✍️ NEW: Weekly Dose of Art! 'Transcendent Slaughter: Die With The Most Likes' Poison Candy' - deep dive interview of @toadswiback by @justinwetch - read it via the Articles tab

I’ve spent so much of my life wandering through galleries in New York — ducking into openings, tracking down a particular work I just had to see in person, encountering exhibitions that have stayed with me for years. Now, surreally, one of those gallery shows is mine. THIS PLACE WAS HOME BEFORE I LIVED HERE: POEMS AFTER JANGAR (Sept 25 - Nov 6) begins with Jangar, the centuries-old Kalmyk-Mongolian oral epic, and with the idea of poetry as a technology of inheritance: a way of carrying language, memory, identity, and imagination across time, distance, generations. The works move between ancestral and contemporary systems of transmission: oral tradition, beads, binary code, scrolls, symbols, cyanotypes, sculpture, voice, verse, generative imagery. They continue my longstanding interest in the digital as something handmade and embodied — something we touch, count, and craft with the digits of the hand — and in language as simultaneously visceral and virtual, a hybrid being not unlike the one we’ve become, and are becoming. They reflect my fascination with resonances between my nomadic roots and the ceaseless movement and “placelessness” of our increasingly mobile, networked world. And they deepen my curiosity about how one of humanity’s oldest technologies, poetic intelligence — a synthesis of emotion and algorithm we use to make meaning — might help us better understand the ones we are creating now. Opening tonight, 6–8 PM SAPAR Contemporary 9 N. Moore Street, New York There will be Kalmyk tea…and my mother has made bortzig… I’ll also be around this afternoon and Saturday morning for walkthroughs if you can’t make it tonight — please send a note to arrange a time.

Artists, galleries and restaurants have remade the Kent seaside town, but its real appeal is in the collision of old resort pleasures and new coastal cool, says Marina O'Loughlin:

Zhucheng’s art villages offer colorful murals, galleries, and cultural heritage experiences. Stroll among blooming rape flower fields, explore historic villages, and enjoy the authentic flavors of a Dongpo feast—an ideal spring retreat.